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Understanding and Supporting Autistic Adults in Livestreaming

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In my work, I aim to develop opportunities for autistic adults to flourish in online social spaces. I focus on investigating how autistic adults experience social livestreaming platforms such as Twitch.tv and Youtube live so that we can develop tools to support them as streamers. Through interviews with autistic livestreamers, my work provides a first account of the challenges facing autistic livestreamers and also the benefits they experience from streaming, including access to social interactions, gaining control of a public space, and promoting autistic identity. From these findings, I plan to work together with autistic livestreamers using co-design processes to develop tools that improve their experience of livestreaming platforms.

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    CSCW '23 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
    October 2023
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